Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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the contemporaries of Pope Silvester the antipodes were inconceivable, and his reputed belief in them did not credit to the old wizard of a Pope. Again we view the sky at noon on a fine day. It is blue, flooded by the light of the Sun. The direct fact of observation is the sun as the sole origin of light, and the bare heavens. Conceive the myth of Adam and Eve in the Garden on the first day of human life. They watch the sunset, the stars appear: -'And, Lo!, creation widened to man's view'. The excess of light discloses facts and also conceals them. It distorts the facts for human observation. It is one task of speculation to urge observation beyond the boundaries of its delusive completeness, and to urge the doctrines of science beyond their delusive air of finality. We can now briefly characterize the history of the transformation of mediaeval cosmology into our modern standpoint. The effective agency in this transformation has a history of about eighteen hundred years entirely divorced from physical observation. It is a history of abstract thought, namely of the development of mathematics. The interest, which was the motive in its development, was the interest in the coordination of theoretical notions and in the theoretical constructions arising from the domination of such notions. Yet, if many modern philosophers and men of science could have had their way, they would have been dissuading
Greeks, Jews, and Muslims from such useless studies, from such pure abstractions for which no foresight could divine the ghost of an application. Luckily they could not get at their ancestors. Section VII. The services to mankind rendered by the Newtonian System of Nature are incalculable. It combines ideas derived from Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, into a consistent scheme of thought which elucidates an incredible number of observed facts. Thereby it has enabled men to obtain a new command over Nature. Where we formerly obeyed, we now direct. But at last the Newton cosmology has broken down. The story of the breakdown extends over more than a century. For by far the greater part of that period men of science were quite unaware that the ideas which they were introducing, slowly, one after the other, were finally to accumulate into a body of thought inconsistent with the Newtonian ideas dominating their thoughts and shaping their modes of expression. The story commences with the wave-theory of light and ends with the wave-theory of matter. It finally leaves us with the philosophic question, What are the concrete fact which exhibit this mathematical attribute of wave-vibration?
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1.Summary The key terms. 1. Key ter
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ideas of substance or subject, two
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2. Nagarjuna Preliminary note We sh
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distinction between two forms of be
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(4) Instrumentalism Instead of favo
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19. “That which has arisen depend
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A brief review of the 25 chapters o
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Chapter 2: A mover and the distance
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Chapter 10: Fire and fuel. Photogra
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Chapter 12: Suffering and the cause
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Chapter 13. A teenager and an aged
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